By right, you shouldn’t get both horizontal and vertical scrollbars unless you make the content large enough to require them.
Howeve typically due to a bug in IE, this happens at times.
IE6-7 (amongst other browsers) supports the proposed CSS3 extension to set scrollbars independently, which you could use to suppress the vertical scrollbar:
overflow: auto;
overflow-y: hidden;
You may also need to add the following for IE8:
-ms-overflow-y: hidden;